The Makes

26 minutes, 2010
︎︎︎ PRESS KITTEASER • MUBI

In the spirit of the Zen riddle about the sound of one hand clapping, a “make” is imagined here as a remake of a film that was never made a first time. The ghost of a movie lurking behind a document attesting to its possibility... Adopting the format of a DVD bonus, this short film is a staged interview with Philippe Azoury, a renowned film critic and Michelangelo Antonioni specialist. The Makes is based on Antonioni’s ideas for films that were never made, published in his book That Bowling Alley on the Tiber. Antonioni’s unrealized cinema finds a new form through an assemblage of various materials that end up giving meaning to each other: found film stills from various unrelated Japanese productions, a precise and surprisingly convincing critical discourse by Azoury, real life sexual anecdotes and an ominous correspondence between Barthes and Antonioni. Exploring the notion of invisible cinema, this montage of unrelated material from the past creates a strangely concrete cinematic experience in the present.
With
Philippe Azoury (the critic)
A film by
Éric Baudelaire
Image
Patrick Ghiringhelli
Editing
Sara Rastegar
Sound
Philippe Welsh
Production
Poulet-Malassis Films・Éric Baudelaire
With support from
Villa Kujoyama
DCP
1:1.77
Stereo sound
French with English subtitles
DISTRIBUTION
LUX (UK)
Cinema Guild (USA)
FESTIVAL
IFFR
REVIEW
La scriptologie: science des œuvres à venir, Morad Montazami, ∆⅄⎈, 2011
MORE RESOURCES
The Makes, L’anticollection, LE BAL – Cnap, 2010
The Makes, 2009